I KNOW this will SHOCK you, but...looks like Vance didn't learn one F*CKING THING from Mike Pence. Not ONE. [View all]

Trump 'shivved Vance in the back' — and the VP is now scrambling for allies: report

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-shivved-vance-in-the-back-in-maga-civl-war-analysis/

(Greg Sargent on The New Republic's Daily Blast podcast) says that as Vance has his eyes on taking the reins of MAGA in a post-Trump world and poll numbers point to the veep as the likely heir, it's not a lock, and the president may not be helping him secure that lock either.

"It occurs to me that Trump really, whether intentionally or not, shivved Vance in the back in a way here," Sargent says. "So Vance has an Indian American wife. He’s gonna want a free hand to do his anti-immigrant appeals while also presenting himself as non-bigoted."

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"Vance wants to get away with what you might call a soft or veiled white nationalism," he says, adding that "Fuentes actually mocks Vance and makes racist comments about his wife. He makes the white nationalism extremely explicit."

Sargent says he believes "Vance would have preferred it if Trump sidelined Fuentes, but Trump basically dumped Fuentes on Vance to have to deal with later."